Hi Steve
> Thanks, Jeremy. Yes, works perfectly! You've made my day!! I'll get to work
> on macros, that I can handle. A deserializer is way beyond my skills (and
> only vaguely within my comprehension.

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Great, I hope it does the trick.
A deserialiser, by the way, is a JS module that extracts tiddlers from a block
of text. The same deserialisers are used in the browser during the import
process, and under Node.js by the --load command.
> This will help me and others who need bibliographic management within
> TiddlyWiki, and allow us to move TW forward as a serious academic tool,
> including being able to write (and publish) journal articles, books, etc.
>
> 40 minutes! It took me 3 days to figure out that I should import a .bib file
> directly :). Again, thanks, and I'll get on with testing the pre-release
> version ...
I think there's a bit more work needed. The field conversion done at the moment
doesn't make any attempt to extract tags, for instance.
When you've had a chance to play around it would be helpful if you could map
out a more useful mapping, and we'll figure out a way to configure the
conversion process.
Best wishes
Jeremy
>
> //steve.
>
>> On Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at 1:09:51 PM UTC-4, Jeremy Ruston wrote:
>> Hi Steve
>>
>> > Ideally, TW should read the .bib file directly, of course. But, one step
>> > at a time...
>>
>> OK, I’ve bowed to the inevitable and spent 40 minutes whipping up a basic
>> BibTeX importer plugin, based on a JavaScript BibTeX parser that I found.
>>
>> You can try it out at:
>>
>> http://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease#%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Ftiddlywiki%2Fbibtex
>>
>> I found that your .bib file at
>> https://stevesunypoly.updog.co/bibtex/first-jabref-bibtex-db.bib gives an
>> error unless I remove the final line:
>>
>> @Comment{jabref-meta: databaseType:bibtex;}
>>
>> I’ve only done the most basic field conversion:
>>
>> * title comes from citationKey
>> * bibtex-entry-type comes from entryType
>> * all entryTags are assigned to fields with the prefix “bibtex-“
>>
>> Let me know how you get on,
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
>>
>>> On 18 Oct 2016, at 17:13, Steven Schneider <st...@sunyit.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> As part of my bibliography project (see previous thread,
>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywiki/ZKiviPin72c) it occurs
>>> to me that I could import a structured file (a bib file) as a tiddler, and
>>> write macros that search for / extract records from that tiddler. Is
>>> something like that even possible?
>>>
>>> Here, for example, is what a bib file with two entries might look like
>>> @InProceedings{Dalgaard2001,
>>> author = {Dalgaard, Rune},
>>> title = {Hypertext and the Scholarly Archive: Intertexts, Paratexts
>>> and Metatexts at Work},
>>> url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/504216.504262},
>>> urldate = {2016-10-17},
>>> }
>>>
>>> @Article{Rowan2016,
>>> author = {Rowan, Kyle Edward},
>>> title = {Not Quite a Sunset: a hypertext opera},
>>> date = {2016},
>>> shorttitle = {Not Quite a Sunset},
>>> url = {http://escholarship.org/uc/item/9830g5pn.pdf},
>>> urldate = {2016-10-17},
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> How could I write macros that would allow me to transclude fields/values
>>> from this tiddler, for example:
>>>
>>> {{Rowan2016!!url}} to return http://escholarship.org/uc/item/9830g5pn.pdf
>>>
>>> {{Rowan2016!!type}} to return @Article (this would be necessary to generate
>>> custom templates based on type)
>>>
>>> etc.
>>>
>>>
>>> I am still interested in parsing this file into separate tiddlers (one for
>>> each @), but the approach outlined above might be easier for me to handle.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> //steve.
>>>
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